Chief Seattle's unanswered challenge :
spoken on the wild forest threshold of the city that bears his name, 1854. /
by John M. Rich.

Description

Main Author

Rich, John M.

Related Names

Seattle, Chief, 1786?-1866.

Language(s)

English

Published

[Seattle : s.n.] c1947

Subjects

Seattle, > Seattle, / Chief, > Seattle, / Chief, / 1786?-1866.
Chief of Seattle (Airplane).
Human ecology.
Suquamish Indians > Suquamish Indians / Land tenure.
Indians of North America > Indians of North America / Land tenure.
Conservation of natural resources.
Suquamish Indians > Suquamish Indians / Biography.

Note

Account of the World War II airplane "The Chief of Seattle": p. 54-56.
Includes (p. 30-41) the speech attributed (perhaps spuriously) to Chief Seattle, ca. 1854, as reported by Henry A. Smith in the Seattle Sunday star, Oct. 29, 1887. Cf. article in Prologue magazine, v. 18, no. 1 (spring 1985); available in electronic form on the web site of the National archives.
"One of the first fifty speeches of history."
"First printing 1932."

Physical Description

60 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.

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